People returning to Dhayra to mourn loss of loved ones find most of settlement has been destroyed
Sari Abu Sari sits smoking shisha in front of the ruins of his neighbour's destroyed home in the village of Dhayra.Sari Abu Sari sits smoking shisha in front of the ruins of his neighbour's destroyed home in the village of Dhayra.he mosque used to announce a death in the Lebanese village of Dhayra. The mournful call would ring loud enough that relatives on the other side of the cement border wall, in the Israeli town of Arab al-Aramshe, would be able to hear it – and prepare.
In Dhayra, and most other border villages in south-west Lebanon, Israeli soldiers had left. Others remained in several south-eastern border villages after the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said Lebanon had not yet fulfilled its obligations under the ceasefire deal – a claim the Lebanese government denied.
Wiam Sweid’s body was exhumed on Sunday from a temporary grave in the Lebanese city of Tyre, where he was buried alongside dozens of others waiting for Israeli soldiers to leave south Lebanon so that they could be buried in their home towns. Ghedia Sweid’s withered body was found underneath rubble on Sunday, when the residents of Dhayra returned to their homes just hours after Israeli soldiers withdrew.
They returned on Sunday to find their village unrecognisable. Not a single building remained standing in Dhayra. In late October, the Israeli army published videos of a controlled demolition of the village – razing most of the settlement to the ground. It conducted similar operations in at least a dozen villages near the Lebanese-Israeli border, with the latest controlled demolition carried out on Saturday night, just a few hours before the Israeli army was supposed to withdraw from south Lebanon in entirety.
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